Facing the Phoenix
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 395, {5] pages. Illustrations. Map. Foreword. Source Notes. Index. Erasure residue on front endpaper. Zalin Grant is a journalist, author, editor and publisher. Zalin Grant is a journalist, author, editor and publisher. Although he is an American, he has lived for many years in France, in the ancestral village of his wife, Claude. Mr. Grant joined the U.S. Army after college, and after training as both an infantry and intelligence officer, was sent to South Viet Nam. After his military service, he worked as a war correspondent for Time magazine, and later for The New Republic. He spent a total of five years in Indo-China during the war, and has written four non-fiction books and one novel about that conflict. One of those books, 'Facing The Phoenix: The CIA and the Political Defeat of the United States in Vietnam', is widely considered to be one of the best works ever written on the wars in Indo-China. Zalin Grant is a co-founder, and serves as Editorial Director, of Pythia Press. The Phoenix Program was a program designed and coordinated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, involving cooperation between American, South Vietnamese and Australian militaries. The program was designed to identify and destroy the Viet Cong (VC) via infiltration, torture, capture, counter-terrorism, interrogation, and assassination. The Phoenix Program was premised on the idea that infiltration had required local support from non-combat civilian populations. Criticisms arose regarding the Phoenix Program, including the use of torture and its being exploited for personal politics. More